@Jojowski @ICastFist oh, I should have mentioned. There's studies showing that autistic "social difficulties" disappear when we're with other autistics.
So we get the closest feeling to "normal" when we're hanging out only with other autistics, likewise if they want the closest feeling to being one of us they should attend an event in which they're the only allistic.
@nondescripthandle I get what you're thinking, the thing is that cocaine is really awful and we've got so many better alternatives. One of the biggest elements being the addictiveness, which generally means a drug loses it's effectiveness over time (it's why caffeine can help a tiny amount with ADHD but really isn't recommended, because it actually makes it worse in the long run)
MDMA and Ketamine, while strong, aren't especially addictive.
@DaGeek247 @paultimate14 @ICastFist This.
A lot of us autistic people tend to look down on allistics. Sometimes it's a coping strategy to deal with the judgements levied against us, sometimes it's a refusal to see our own flaws.
... and it's not without value sometimes, because there are sometimes the allistics just suck... (see Identity Theory of Autism that highlights how we're morally much more consistent than them)
@nondescripthandle @AllNewTypeFace we pretty much have the data there, all that could separate are minor side effect differences... but it's all overshadowed by the severe addiction side effect of cocaine.
A lot of people with ADHD have cocaine habits because, being a major stimulant, it helps with ADHD symptoms... plus cocaine is often easier to get ahold of than ritalin/adderall despite the latter being safer.
@ICastFist Not really, with ADHD it's primarily a chemical imbalance which means like 90% of the issues can be cleared chemically (ie. medication). It's not exactly a "normal" experience, but it's way closer than it was.
Autism on the other hand is broad and neurological, so much of it has to do with the actual physical structures of our brains (like density of nerve clusters), and there's nothing that can be done about that.
@vv0ltz hi tumblr clone from facebook clone (for nerds)!
Just going to note that a tumblr clone exists now...
Also congrats on the hard fought wins, hope you get even more euphoria and progress when the T levels get sorted out!
@SCmSTR that's why I said primarily, but I recognize that was a subtle distinction and not very clear.
I don't think any medication is going to really make us have an allistic experience, we can sometimes use medication for some comorbidities, but the things that make us autistic are too fundamental.
I realized in reply to someone else that I could have pointed out that we do have one occasion where we have something resembling an allistic experience, and that's when we're associating with other autistics.
They've done studies and our "social difficulties" disappear when we're only interacting with other autistics.
It's because our social issues are outside expectations and not a problem with us, we operating in an autistic manner. But because the world treats allistic norms as the only right way, we're forced to accommodate them and they refuse to accommodate us... so we get difficulties. When we're interacting with other autistics we're basically using the same protocol, so everything is fine.
It's still not entirely an identical experience, but it's the closest we've got. We still have fundamental differences in our entire sense of selves (the recent Identity Theory of Autism highlights how we structure our identities in a completely different way from allistics, it's why we typically don't understand "school spirit" or "peer pressure")